How to Be a Heroic Explorer in a Friendly Arctic: A Chronotopic Approach to Self-Representation in Vilhjalmur Stefansson’s The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions (1921)

• Main Author: Gaupseth, Silje
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: UiT Norges arktiske universitet 2017
• Subjects: Exploration literature; Vilhjalmur Stefansson; Chronotope; The Friendly Arctic; VDP::Humaniora: 000::Litteraturvitenskapelige fag: 040::Allmenn litteraturvitenskap: 041; VDP::Humanities: 000::Literary disciplines: 040::General literary science: 041; VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Samfunnsgeografi: 290; VDP::Social science: 200::Human geography: 290; Arctic; Stefansson; inuit
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/10216

This dissertation deals with the exploration account The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions (1921), written by Canadian-American anthropologist and explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879–1962). Stefansson’s story is based on his experiences during the Canadian Arctic Expedition,...